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Monpay, Aprit 25TH, 1853. 
THOMAS ROMNEY ROBINSON, D. D., Presiwent, 
in the Chair. 
Tue Secretary of the Council read the correspondence be- 
tween the Council and the General Committee of the Great 
Industrial Exhibition in Dublin, since the last meeting of the 
Academy, together with the amended conditions agreed to 
between the Sub-Committee of the Council and the Fine Arts 
Committee of the Exhibition, and the following Resolution of 
the General Committee, viz.:—‘* That this Committee, having 
had before them the conditions on which the Royal Irish 
Academy propose to lend the Museum of Antiquities for Ex- 
hibition, agree to accept the Academy’s offer, with the under- 
standing that the inspection of the Collection of Antiquities 
in the Exhibition Building be confined to the Treasurer, Dr. 
Ball, and the Assistant Librarian, Mr. Clibborn, who shall 
have access at all times for that purpose.” 
Reav,—The following recommendation of the Council : 
‘* That the Academy approve of the articles of agreement 
on which it is now proposed to exhibit the Academy’s Museum.” 
To which the following addition, as an amendment, was moved 
by John F. Waller, LL. D., seconded by the Rev. Samuel 
Haughton :—‘* That the articles of agreement, &c. be agreed 
to, provided, that in case either of the persons having the 
right of visiting the Collection of the Academy be unavoidably 
absent, the Council of the Academy shall have the right of 
nominating his substitute.” A division having been called 
for, there were— 
For the amendment, . . . 29 
Bes | Aa. oe 12 
Whereupon the President declared the recommendation of the 
